"Poor
developing countries" no longer exist as a distinct group…. Today, most
people, 75 percent, live in middle income countries.
Only 9 percent of
the world lives in low-income countries.
In 2016 a total of
40 million commercial passenger flights landed safely at their
destinations. Only ten ended in fatal
accidents.
In the United
States, the risk that your loved one will be killed by a drunk person is nearly
50 times higher than the risk he or she will be killed by a terrorist.
There was extreme
poverty in Sweden 90 years ago.
In the third century
BC, the world's first nature reserve was created by King Devanampiya Tissa in
Sri Lanka when he declared a piece of forest to be officially protected.
When people tell me
we must act now, it makes me hesitate.
In most cases, they are just trying to stop me from thinking clearly.